The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-10-05
IRISH NEWS NOTES.

League Meetings Held-The Government
Solicitor ia TroubIe-Notes.
DUBLIN, October 3-Several branches OF
the National League held meetings yester-
day In the Mitchelstown district. In one
case hundreds of people evaded the police,
and went to q fortified house outside of
town where the meeting took place. Man
deville, who was tried with 0'Brien f0r
using sedititous language and sentenced
to two months imprisonment, but was re-
leased on bail, presided and made speech
in which he declared it impossi-
BILE TO destroy the League.
Resolutions were passed strongly
coudemDing the govern ments interference
with public meetings and freedom of
speech.
William OBrien has written a public
letter in which he says: "On the day of
my conviction at Mitchelstown the Solicit
tor.General telegrsphed in cipher 10 the
Crown Counsel: Mistake, 0'Brien will
best us. Harrington will be dlsbarred a.
our next meeting" This explains why L
received three separate summons. The
plot for running Harrington is here disclos-
ed with brutal candor.
In an interview, Harrington says: Per
haps some of my work at the Mithels-
town inquest is TOO strong for some of our
English friends, but nothing else could
elicit the facts from the police. It was
earlier witnesses, that l could change the
story arranged by the police. was in
formed that a policy had previously
been determined upon to give me all the
iDsolence possible in the witnesses chair.
Sergeant Ryder pledged himself to his
companions to strike me. This is borne
out by bis demeanor in the witnesses
chair. The Inspector. however, restrained
him. Regarding O'Brien's letter
ha Rannhara
ALI such fools as the Solicitor General
thinks. would not be surprised if Dub
lin Castle I'm Dis itself in an awkward fl Z
when all the facts regarding the refusal to
permit Constable Sullivsn's report in evil
dence, are placed before the English peo.
pie. 7 attribute the serving of summonses
upon O'Brien and Mayor Sullivan to de-
sire on the part of the Castle authorities to
suppress evidences of their defeat by the
proclaimed branches of the National League
whose meetings continue as before. The
Government will doubtless prosecute other
journalists than those named. Should
0'Brien and Sullivan be thrown into prison,
it will be "a strong plank in our platform,
through its effect in England, where the
greatest jealousy is felt in regards to the
rights of the press"
Mayor Sullivan will pTocsed in state to
the police court Thursday, when his trial
comes of. The members of the CORPORA
tioDs in their robes will accompany him.
Gibson, Irish Solicitor General, denies
the statement of Vim. O'Brien, tb at the
former on the day CT O'Brien's conviction
at Mitchelstown, telegraphed the Crown
counsel that the Government would lose
the case and would disbsr Harrington, the
defendants counsel. The Crown counsel
also denies that ne received any such tele-
gram.
il score of meetings were publicly held
in Ireland yesterday by the League. The
police in most cases were baffled in their
attempt to ascertain where the meetings
were to be held.
MITcHELsrowN, October The inquest
in the case of the victims of the recent
riot wes continued to-day. Inspector
Brownrigg deposed that when the police
rushed back into the barracks, many
bleeding from wounds inflicted by the
mob, he ordered the men to load, but not
to fire without orders. When he heard
the reports OF rifles he ordered the men to
cease firing. Still, he considered the firing
necessary. He commended Constable
Kirwin for having fred from the door Of
| the barracks. Prof. James Stuart, member
| Of Parliament, and number OF English
nome rule members were present in court.
LONDON, October 3-Johu Bright has
written q letter in which he says he has
never been more of a friend of Ireland than
now, when objecting to hand that unfor.
tunete country over to the rule of revolu-
tionary rebel conspirators. Justice to Ire
land requires not only that the laws be just,
but that they be obeyed. at is my sym.
pathy with the Irish people which forces
me to offer strong opposition to Gladstone
and Parnell. The latter has not changed.
The former five years ago, condemned and
denounced him, but now he comes forward
as his apologist and defender"
LIMERICK, October 3-Father O'Leary,
OF St. Louis, in an orstion on Patrick Sars-
field, avowed that he was q Socialist and
rebel at heart, as was every Irishman. He
denounced the police as the vermln of Ire
land, and said they ceased to be Irishmen
when they donned the Government uni
form.